Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Road race		men		women
Time trial		men		women
Track cycling
Individual pursuit		men		women
Team pursuit		men
Sprint		men		women
Team sprint		men
Points race		men		women
Keirin		men
Madison		men
Mountain biking
Cross-country		men		women
BMX
BMX		men		women

Pictogram used to identify cycling at the 2008 Games

Cycling competitions at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics were held from August 9 to August 23 at the Laoshan Velodrome (track events), Laoshan Mountain Bike Course, Laoshan BMX Field and the Beijing Cycling Road Course. The event was widely perceived as being dominated by the British team, who claimed 14 medals in total, including eight golds.^[1][2]

Events

Eighteen sets of medals were awarded in four disciplines: track cycling, road cycling, mountain bike, and, new for 2008, BMX. The following events were contested:

Track cycling

• Team sprint Men
• Sprint Men
• Keirin Men
• 4000 m Team pursuit Men
• 4000 m Individual pursuit Men
• Madison 50 km Men
• Points race 40 km Men
• Sprint women
• 3000 m Individual pursuit women
• Points race 25 km women

Road cycling

• Road bicycle race men—239 km
• Road time trial men—46.8 km
• Road bicycle race women—120 km
• Road time trial women—31.2 km

Mountain bike

• Mountain bike men
• Mountain bike women

BMX

• BMX race men
• BMX race women

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	8	4	2	14
2	France (FRA)	2	3	1	6
3	Spain (ESP)	2	1	1	4
4	United States (USA)	1	1	3	5
5	Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	2	4
6	Germany (GER)	1	1	1	3
7	Argentina (ARG)	1	0	0	1
8	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
9	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
10	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	0	2
11	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	1	2
12	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
13	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	0	1
14	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
15	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
16	Russia (RUS)	0	0	3	3
17	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
18	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
19	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
20	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
Total		18	18	18	54

Road cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's road race details	Samuel Sánchez Spain (ESP)	Fabian Cancellara Switzerland (SUI)	Alexandr Kolobnev Russia (RUS)
Women's road race details	Nicole Cooke Great Britain (GBR)	Emma Johansson Sweden (SWE)	Tatiana Guderzo Italy (ITA)
Men's time trial details	Fabian Cancellara Switzerland (SUI)	Gustav Larsson Sweden (SWE)	Levi Leipheimer United States (USA)
Women's time trial details	Kristin Armstrong United States (USA)	Emma Pooley Great Britain (GBR)	Karin Thürig Switzerland (SUI)

Track cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual pursuit details	Bradley Wiggins Great Britain (GBR)	Hayden Roulston New Zealand (NZL)	Steven Burke Great Britain (GBR)
Women's individual pursuit details	Rebecca Romero Great Britain (GBR)	Wendy Houvenaghel Great Britain (GBR)	Lesya Kalitovska Ukraine (UKR)
Men's team pursuit details	Great Britain (GBR) Ed Clancy Paul Manning Geraint Thomas Bradley Wiggins	Denmark (DEN) Alex Nicki Rasmussen Michael Moerkoev Casper Jørgensen Jens-Erik Madsen Michael Færk Christensen*	New Zealand (NZL) Sam Bewley Jesse Sergent Hayden Roulston Marc Ryan Westley Gough*
Men's individual sprint details	Chris Hoy Great Britain (GBR)	Jason Kenny Great Britain (GBR)	Mickaël Bourgain France (FRA)
Women's individual sprint details	Victoria Pendleton Great Britain (GBR)	Anna Meares Australia (AUS)	Guo Shuang China (CHN)
Men's team sprint details	Great Britain (GBR) Jamie Staff Jason Kenny Chris Hoy	France (FRA) Grégory Baugé Kévin Sireau Arnaud Tournant	Germany (GER) René Enders Maximillian Levy Stefan Nimke
Men's points race details	Joan Llaneras Spain (ESP)	Roger Kluge Germany (GER)	Chris Newton Great Britain (GBR)
Women's points race details	Marianne Vos Netherlands (NED)	Yoanka González Cuba (CUB)	Leire Olaberría Spain (ESP)
Men's Keirin details	Chris Hoy Great Britain (GBR)	Ross Edgar Great Britain (GBR)	Kiyofumi Nagai Japan (JPN)
Men's Madison details	Argentina (ARG) Juan Esteban Curuchet Walter Fernando Perez	Spain (ESP) Joan Llaneras Antonio Tauler	Russia (RUS) Mikhail Ignatiev Alexei Markov

* Participate in the preliminary round only.

Mountain biking

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's cross-country details	Julien Absalon France (FRA)	Jean-Christophe Péraud France (FRA)	Nino Schurter Switzerland (SUI)
Women's cross-country details	Sabine Spitz Germany (GER)	Maja Włoszczowska Poland (POL)	Irina Kalentieva Russia (RUS)

BMX

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Māris Štrombergs Latvia (LAT)	Mike Day United States (USA)	Donny Robinson United States (USA)
Women details	Anne-Caroline Chausson France (FRA)	Laëtitia Le Corguillé France (FRA)	Jill Kintner United States (USA)

Qualification

Main article: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

See also

• Cycling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

References

• Beijing 2008
• Union Cycliste Internationale

1. ^ "How GB cycling went from tragic to magic". BBC. 2008-08-14. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/cycling/7534073.stm. Retrieved 2009-05-07. 
2. ^ "How Team GB's weekend of glory happened". Metro. 2009-08-17. http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/olympics/article.html?in_article_id=268147&in_page_id=310. Retrieved 2009-05-07.